Gerry McMahon is an acknowledged national expert in People Management. He has over 35 years’ experience - as a workplace investigator (on bullying/harassment/ disciplinary/dismissal/grievance issues), trainer, negotiator, facilitator, mediator, arbitrator and team builder - across a wide range of employment sectors. He is the M.D. of the H.R. training and advisory company Productive Personnel Ltd.
Gerry has also had an extensive range of books and articles published and been a columnist with the Industrial Relations News, Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, and Irish Independent and expert commentator on H.R./Employee Relations for R.T.E. and TV3/Virgin. He has also served on numerous Legal Island and C.I.P.D. judging panels and is a Council member of the Irish Association for Industrial Relations.
Contact: Tel. 087-2471415; E-Mail: ppl1gerry@gmail.com
It is now well-accepted that the learning and development process lies at the heart of a nation’s competitiveness. According to both the O.E.C.D. and a leading Human Resource Management (H.R.M.) guru, Professor Dave Ulrich, learning, development and human capital is ‘the DNA of competitiveness’. That is, our national competitiveness stands on a plinth of strong investment in human resources, with learning, development and knowledge recognised as the crucial competitiveness levers. At organisation level, the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (I.B.E.C.) claims that ‘high performing organisations’ recognise the need to use training and development practices to enhance their competitive advantage – with almost 4 per cent of payroll costs allocated to such practices. Related thereto, a recent Accenture survey found that
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